Race is a modern idea used by our society to divide people based off of their physical differences such as skin tone. According to the film, race has no genetic bases meaning there isn’t a characteristic, trait, or gene that distinguishes one “race” from another. The genes for skin color have nothing to do with the color of your eyes, blood type, athlete ability, or even hair color. Race is a social idea that gives people an advantage to access certain opportunities and resources based off of the color of your skin. As the film points out, our government created advantages to being white whether we are aware of it or not. A few hundred years ago, many whites felt that blacks were inherited to be sickly and to die out. Because of blacks
